{"id":5870,"date":"2016-12-15T13:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T13:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2016-12-15T13:22:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T13:22:16","slug":"turkish-restaurant-open-christmas-day-free-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/turkish-restaurant-open-christmas-day-free-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant&#8217;s Open Christmas Day For Lonely, Elderly And Homeless People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sidcup, London.<\/strong> A restaurant has decided to take the unusual step of opening its doors and offering <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/top-10-foods-to-boost-your-immune-system-naturally\/\">food<\/a> on <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/awkward-christmas-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas <\/a>Day<\/strong><\/em>. Unusual but no unheard of. After all, London is a multicultural and multi-faith city with many non-Christians. But this story is different. They plan to GIVE AWAY food.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100009986621332\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Shish<\/strong><\/em><\/a>&#8216; plan to offer sanctuary to lonely people, homeless people and elderly folk with no family this December 25th. There&#8217;s a six hour window where anyone fitting the criteria come along and enjoy a tasty three course meal for nothing.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5871\" src=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Shish-Sidcup.jpg\" alt=\"Shish Sidcup\" width=\"1065\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll be serving up soup as a starter, chicken shish kebabs or vegetarian casserole for mains and rice pudding for dessert. There&#8217;s no actual Christmas dinner because the people at Shish are Turkish and are more experts in their own cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original <a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/man-pays-for-womans-groceries-wal-mart-selfie\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Facebook<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>post in which the restaurant said about their offer:<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D370773456598872%26id%3D100009986621332&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"606\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now people from all over the world, not just London are commending their work. Well done, guys!<\/p>\n<p>What a beautiful gesture, huh?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZB7wHBpaLQg?t=6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidcup, London. 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That&#8217;s right, &#8216;Shish&#8216; plan to offer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[2614,3070,3282,3283,3757],"class_list":{"0":"post-5870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-inspirational","8":"tag-muslim-restaurant-free-meals-christmas","9":"tag-restuarant-opens-free-meal-christmas","10":"tag-shish-sidcup","11":"tag-shish-sidcup-christmas","12":"tag-turkish-restaurant-christmas"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Restaurant&#039;s Open Christmas Day For Lonely, Elderly And Homeless People - Daily Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/turkish-restaurant-open-christmas-day-free-meals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Restaurant&#039;s Open Christmas Day For Lonely, Elderly And Homeless People\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sidcup, London. 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